Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era (Sport and Society)
Touching Base explores professional baseball’s relationship to American culture during the Progressive Era. Steven A. Riess places the development and significance of the sport within a broader historical setting, offering readers an examination of baseball as part of a changing American society.
About This Book
Touching Base examines professional baseball during the Progressive Era, a period of significant change in American society.
The book considers baseball as part of American culture and explores the relationship between professional sport and the era in which it developed.
By focusing on baseball and society together, Steven A. Riess places the sport within a broader historical framework.
This work is suited to readers interested in sports history, American history, and the cultural significance of professional athletics.
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